Yi-Gang Xu

TL;DR: Sino-Korean Craton (SKC) is an important natural laboratory for studying temporal change to the lithosphere because there is the jutaxposition of Ordovician diamondiferous kimberlites, Mesozoic lamprophyre-basalt and Cenozoic tholeiite-alkali basalts in this craton.

TL;DR: Based on petrographic, major and trace element, and Sr-Nd isotope data, the Emeishan basalts can be classified into two major magma types: (1) a low-Ti (LT) type that exhibits low Ti/Y ( 500), and (2) HT2 lavas are compositionally similar to the HT1 lavas but show conspicuous depletion in U and Th as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the North China Craton (NCC) at the end of the Pre-Cambrian and revealed decoupling brought about by repeated orogenic events over the history of NCC.

TL;DR: A National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) major research project, Destruction of the North China Craton (NCC), has been carried out in the past few years by Chinese scientists through an in-depth and systematic observations, experiments and theoretical analyses, with an emphasis on the spatio-temporal distribution of the NCC destruction, the structure of deep earth and shallow geological records of the craton evolution, the mechanism and dynamics of craton destruction.

TL;DR: In this article, the best-exposed lava succession in the western ELIP is studied in order to further constrain their petrogenesis and plume-lithosphere interaction.